Midlothian Quarry and Plant — Accidents

Total: 293 accidents | Fatalities: 3

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
01/03/2008 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted Employee was shoveling and felt a pain in his back resulting in a lumbar strain.
12/27/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee was working on #2 cement cooler. He was turning the slide on the cooler and it slipped and cut his finger which required sutures.
12/04/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was removing motor from dust collector fan. The motor got hung up on a brace so the employee pulled it harder and strained his back.
10/18/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 1d lost, 11d restricted Employee was sweeping when he felt his lower back stiffen up. Employee stopped sweeping and sneezed. When he sneezed his back spasmed and he felt severe pain in his lower back.
10/15/2007 OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee noticed his rash was getting worse and he needed to see a doctor. Employee has contact dermatitis.
10/10/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 72d lost Employee was walking down the steps of the masonry bagging machine. He tripped and fell down the steps resulting in a lumbar strain.
08/29/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 51d lost, 37d restricted Employee was loading scaffold pipe on trailer.
08/14/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was shoveling and lifted a shovel with a full load. He then felt a pain in his back and was diagnosed with a lumbar sprain.
07/30/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on a fan. The fan was locked out, but it rolled. When it rolled it caught the employees glove and cut his right hand. Employee's injury required sutures.
07/19/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was removing a seal on the water spray at #6 Finish Mill. He was prying the housing with a pry bar when the bar slipped and struck him in the forehead. He received sutures in his forhead...
07/17/2007 MACHINERY ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID) None Contractor employee was cutting metal on pre-heat tower when metal fell cutting his right hand.
07/06/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 36d restricted Employee was shoveling underneath a hopper. He felt a slight pain in his groin area. Approximately 45 minutes later he noticed swelling in that area. Employee was diagnosed with a hernia.
05/27/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 240d lost The employee was changing the bucket on the bobcat. The bucket was 6 - 8 inches off the ground. He was standing between the bobcat and bucket when he pulled the release pin. The bucket fell on the emp...
05/18/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was shoveling next to a tin wall in the Clinker Barn. He was not wearing gloves and there was a loose peice of tin still attached to a wall beam. As he was shoveling he brushed his hand again...
05/11/2007 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted Employee was cleaning under #1 Raw Mill and kept hitting his shovel on a metal plate in the floor. Felt fine when he went home, but the next morning his right wrist was swollen.
03/14/2007 DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) OCCUPATNAL ILLNESS NOT DEG 1-6 None Employee was working in the Clinker Barn measuring clinker piles when he passed out. Employee was treated for dehydration.
01/30/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was installing new brackets on stop motion on 432-CV1. The employee bent over to pick up a torch and when he stood up he hit his face on a beam and broke his front tooth.
01/12/2007 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Employee was moving a 55 gal. drum from underneath a pallet rack. He pulled it very hard and the lid came off. When the lid came off the employee fell backwards into the pallet rack leg hurting his ba...
01/09/2007 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 9d restricted Employee was removing a return roller. He jerked the roller out with his left hand causing the roller to drop, this forced his right hand under the roller and conecting point. He suffered a fracture t...
10/09/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted Employee was moving metal on to a pallet. His finger was caught between two pieces of metal and he suffered a laceration to the left middle finger.
09/08/2006 OTHER INJURIES DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES None Employee had a heart attack.
09/02/2006 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 41d restricted Employee was trying to close the TA Damper when another employee tried to jog it the manual crank caught his right arm causing a laceration to the forearm.
07/31/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 15d restricted The employee was pulling barrels out of pit #2. He felt a pain in his back.
07/31/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None The employee was operating a jackhammer and the air hose got tangled in the 703 pan while it was moving. The employee tried to pull it out and the fitting on the hose cut his finger on his left hand.
07/20/2006 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 18d restricted The employee was cutting a gasket at 711-VA1 valve and the razor knife that he was using to cut the gasket slipped cutting the palm of his left hand.
07/05/2006 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted The employee was walking in the 712 tunnel, down an incline. He slipped and fell and twisted his ankle.
02/06/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 341d restricted The employee pulled the press bed from under the hydraulic press and felt severe pain in his back.
01/03/2006 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 141d restricted Employee was stepping up the ladder to get into the loader and he twisted his right knee, which caused him severe pain.
11/16/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee was replacing a cement valve over his head. He lined up the valve and pulled too hard and strained his left bicep.
11/10/2005 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 11d restricted The employee was cleaning under a pan conveyor. He reached inside the guard and layed his hand on top of the pan rail. The pan was running and a steel roller ran over his finger.
11/03/2005 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted 2 Employees were driving in a gator on the quarry road and saw a tool in the road. They stopped their vehicle to pick up the tool and were hit in the rear by a pick up truck driven by another employee...
11/03/2005 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 25d restricted 2 Employees were driving in a gator on the quarry road and saw a tool in the road. They stopped their vehicle to pick up the tool and were hit in the rear by a pick up truck driven by another employee...
10/15/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 47d restricted While working on a a feeder chain the employee was holding a pin in the chain and another employee swung a sledge hammer intending to hit the pin and instead he hit the employees hand.
10/14/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was taking nuts off of tipping valve and felt pain in his neck.
10/13/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 11d restricted The employee was removing forms inside the riser at #5 Kiln, while doing so he hit a bar between two boards and the hammer bounced off of the bar and hit his hand causing severe pain and swelling.
10/13/2005 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 7d restricted The employee was working on the bagging machine in the Pack House and a bag fell off to the side and pushed his right knee to the far right causing severe pain.
10/06/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 20d restricted The employee stepped down into a drainage ditch (between #3 and #4 smokestacks), slipped and twisted his right ankle.
09/07/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 32d restricted Stepping out of crane, employee heard his knee pop. Caused severe pain and difficulty in walking.
08/10/2005 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on an air compressor on the service truck. There is a step on the side of the bed inside the truck. Employee stepped off of that step and he turned his ankle and it popped.
07/21/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None LOWERING TOOL BY ROPE, KNOT CAME LOOSE, TOOL FELL LANDING ON HAND
07/09/2005 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was trying to move the deflector plate @ the headpulley of 351-BC1, it was using a prybar. He stuck the bar between the hopper and the handle to move the gate and the bar slipped, hitting th...
02/04/2005 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted EE was in the process of replacing a heat shield #4 Kiln, #3 Pier South East trunnion. While in the process of this, the kiln caught the heat shield and trapped his foot crushing it as the kiln came a...
01/08/2005 STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was in the process of repairing an electrical switch in 703 tunnel. He slipped on loose material at the stairs towards the bottom of the tunnel. There were some clinker balls around the stair...
12/23/2004 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was driving the loader back from fuel island and hit a large hole. This jammed the seat into his lower back.
12/15/2004 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 1d restricted The employee was entering truck on driver's side. The weld broke loose on the bottom step. Employee swung down and caught himself with his left knee on the top step. All his weight slammed down on...
12/14/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted THE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ALONE IN THE QUARRY PICKING UP WATER LINES, HE SAID HIS LEFT CALF MUSCLE STARTED HURTING BUT HE DID NOT NOTIFY ANYONE ON IT THAT EVENING. THE NEXT MORNING, HE COULD HARDLY WAL...
12/11/2004 OTHER DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 10d restricted He was cleaning in 700 tunnel when he went to bend down and squat his knee bent to the side causing him pain in his right knee.
11/11/2004 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 8d restricted Employee cut his finger on right hand while helping move clean up screw behind #2 RM.
08/10/2004 POWERED HAULAGE PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY 59d lost Injured was eating lunch with remainder of crew in shade of railcar, when locomotive hooked to cars & started moving. Injured was knocked down and in falling his hand was run over by wheel of railcar.
08/05/2004 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 2d restricted WHILE GUNITING, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL ON ANCHORS AND PUNCTURED HIS BUTTOCKS.